A Curious Girl: Spiritual lows, spiritual highs

After I wrote my entry last night, I went to The Brunching Shuttlecocks and found a picture of Amy Grant (a Christian rock singer in the US) doing a supposed 'Satan' sign. I looked at the site they got that from. What a site! They had taken a few serious incidents and facts from the world of Christian Contempory Music, and a whole load of semantics and tranformed Christian Rock into the most evil blasphemy that ever existed. Apparently it is evil to

1) Listen to songs written by satanists, admirers of satanists, or intolerant non-believers even if that song makes no reference to the devil

2) Write songs from the devil's viewpoint, even if it makes it plain that the devil is evil

3) Refer to Jesus in a familiar way

4) Write fun songs about Jesus

5) Have a stupid band name (like 'One bad pig')

6) Not mention Jesus in a song

7) Refer to or do something that might just possibly be construed as 'occult', such as put your name in mirror writing and use runes to represent some of the letters in your name (not even all of them!).

8) Enjoy rock music!

(Whoever wrote this really ought to listen to more Matt Redman. A more spiritual singer I have rarely heard)

They even had a go at someone for covering 'Big Yellow Taxi' because it mentions paradise being covered by a parking lot, and paradise is of course Heaven. I have never been so shocked by such overreacting in my life.

I mentioned this to Elaine, and she said, "This hasn't been a good week for your Christianity, has it?"

True in some ways. First the soul searching, and The Amber Spyglass not telling the truth about stuff, then finding out about Richard H for definite, and then this! But then again, my prayers were answered because I suddenly found my desire to work hard and long, and maybe I am finding my future after all. And I did enjoy Amber Spyglass, God forbid (sorry up there, I mean this as a figure of speech). And Abi and Nicola both seem to be doing all right, whereas they were both not too good before.

Christina's been asked by Mr. McC (RS teacher) to give her viewpoint on Christmas for something Radio Kent has been doing, seeing as she is 'a fairly outspoken Christian' (Hmm, I just wrote, 'a fairly outspoken Christina' :-))

She asked me I thought she should say, and I told her to just say what she thinks. Yes, I thought later, the best thing to do is just tell it like it is. Be honest and no-one can accuse you of dressing up the truth, and if you're all doom and gloom, at least it's true doom and gloom.

In Communication today we did our discussion on the Jamie Bulger case - should the killers be let out?

(Small note of explanation - Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were ten years old when they led two year old James Bulger away from his mother, tortured and killed him)

It was an interesting case, but I never got to talk about forgiveness, as Mrs. Smith came in and told us we'd have to finish. Most could see that there was reasons for etting them out, but all in all we seemed to settled on what a terrible crime it was. Mrs. T was 'invigilating' (I can't think of a better word) and she said, "I know you might not think about the religious side of things, but I just think of Jesus on the cross and how he could forgive us, and then we can't forgive..."

She sounded so sincere. Richard H shrugged it off as thinking religiously, and the rest just left. But I smiled and her and said, "my argument exactly."

You could tell the case had affected her as well as us. She didn't say like she was preaching, that was the thing, she said it like she meant it, and that's what counts. It also made up for her invention of 'the late chair' in psychology for late people. Some things just really touch you I suppose.

I'm going out with Abi and Cat at the weekend hopefully. Abi keeps trying to persuade me to come to Secrets (a gay bar) and be a token straight person, but I said no. I told Mum and she didn't seem to mind (after all, I'm not going to get raped by some sadistic sex-obsessed lesbian, am I?) but it just wouldn't feel right.

Oh, and Nicola had her interview at Brunel Uni today - she reckons it was all right apart from tippex on the mental arithmetic paper!

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